The powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition "This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and aboli...9780300087017Frederick Douglass
Yale University Press
viernes, 20 de octubre de 2023
Recently the basis for a major motion picture starring Hollywood golden boy Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was written in 1922 by the golden boy of early twentiet...9780007925506Francis Scott Fitzgerald
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
viernes, 6 de octubre de 2023
Why Americans Can't Think Straight about RaceIn this lively book, a well-known social critic draws on evidence from movies, TV, literature, and advertising to argue that many Americans have been lulled by the media into belie...9780300073942Benjamin DeMott
Yale University Press
miércoles, 30 de agosto de 2023
Author, abolitionist, political activist, and philosopher, Frederick Douglass was a pivotal figure in the decades of struggle leading up to the Civil War and the Reconstruction era...9780486498829Frederick Douglass James ...
Dover Publications
viernes, 28 de julio de 2023
Three Stories. Three Lives. Three Generations.Three Worlds is a historical fiction that takes the reader through human nature, across three generations. The journey follows an orphan heiress who loses everything in the Second ...9781922956927Jozef Borja-Erece Maynah ...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 19 de julio de 2023
Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a ...9781911508755Eva Baltasar
And Other Stories
viernes, 7 de julio de 2023
New Visions"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About L...9780060959470Hooks, Bell
HarperCollins
jueves, 29 de junio de 2023
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five...9780008451783Joan Didion
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 29 de junio de 2023
Annotation. This comprehensive edition brings together three seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Senti...9780008284688Joan Didion
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 29 de junio de 2023
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides ...9781913505387Baltasar, Eva
And Other Stories
jueves, 8 de junio de 2023
A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befa...9781783788255Irene Sola
Granta
jueves, 25 de mayo de 2023
Lives for Liberty'A real treasure that we can't stop exploring' - La Republica Fanny Schoonhey was said to be the bravest woman in Barcelona. Felicia Browne decided it was time to put down her pai...9780745347127Jordi Martí-Rueda
Pluto Press
miércoles, 10 de mayo de 2023
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As...9780241342039James Baldwin
Penguin
jueves, 6 de abril de 2023
From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This co...9780007558391Paul Preston
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
miércoles, 7 de diciembre de 2022
Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015 Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels...9781940953229Mercè Rodoreda
Open Letter
miércoles, 23 de noviembre de 2022
A history of Catalonia and its struggle for independence, from the 10th century to the present day At every home game of FC Barcelona, at 17 minutes and 14 seconds of play, the ...9780745342139Michael Eaude
Pluto Press
lunes, 7 de noviembre de 2022
A New History of Humanity'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Ni...9780141991061David Graeber David Wengr...
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 22 de julio de 2022
Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-ni...9781840226898Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskel...
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd
miércoles, 30 de marzo de 2022
Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of 18 Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. This collection includes some of his most...9781853264153Burns, Robert
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd
viernes, 7 de enero de 2022
Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greates...9780340960196Frank Herbert
Coronet Books
viernes, 3 de diciembre de 2021
This book is that story?s silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother...9780099556091Winterson, Jeanette
Vintage
jueves, 18 de noviembre de 2021
Today I was leaving my familiar little home patch to explore a much wider home... Slow Travels in Unsung Spain is a warts n' all trip through some of Spain's hidden gems: towns, ci...9781949643046Brett Hetherington
Editors Varis
viernes, 12 de noviembre de 2021
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells ...9780141186375James Baldwin
Penguin Books Ltd
lunes, 8 de marzo de 2021
The story of the guilt, bitterness and spiritual strivings of the Grimes family which is told as the son, John, faces the issue of religious conversion in the Temple of the Fire Ba...9780141185910James Baldwin
Penguin Books Ltd
lunes, 14 de diciembre de 2020
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial securit...9780142410370Roald Dahl
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 11 de diciembre de 2020
This is a hand-drawn short collection of stories about living in London and experiencing its wildness. The mood is Oscar Wilde roaming the streets with Aubrey Beardsley. This limit...9999902636572Fortuny, Margo
Editors Varis
sábado, 3 de octubre de 2020
'This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.' - Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram) WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE...9780571333134Rooney, Sally
Faber & Faber
lunes, 25 de mayo de 2020
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS ...9780571334650Rooney, Sally
Faber & Faber
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2019
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